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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 1

  1. Find extremum
  2. Crop circles of pi and Euler's identity
  3. Maximum/Minimum Irradiance for "Human habitable" planet temperatures?

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 2

  1. weakly normalised
  2. closed immersion of smooth varieties

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 3

  1. Tangent/secant functions
  2. What is the name?
  3. Integrating

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 4

  1. Finding angle between vectors in two dimensions
  2. Co-NP
  3. Drawing a quadrilateral?
  4. Quadrilateral 2d shape

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 5

  1. General statistics question
  2. Symmetry in a multi-dimensional space

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 6

  1. Operator, or transform, as a mapping between classes of functions
  2. Niggle: given a mapping between two classes of members
  3. Always possible to find a matrix that transform a matrix into reduced row echelon form?
  4. Bijection wanted with S_n
  5. Is the following article removed?

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 8

  1. Ratios
  2. What happens at x=Pi/2
  3. Homomorphism
  4. Newline formatting in Wikipedia LaTeX
  5. Measures of complexity (Chemistry)
  6. Meaning of eigenvalue, eigenvector

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 9

  1. Stddev and stdevpop on TI-89 Titanium
  2. QBF(PSPACE Complete Problem)
  3. Meaning of a Conjecture Being Undecidable
  4. Program to Find Primes
  5. trignometry
  6. anti-transpose?

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 10

  1. Dense open set in the reals with finite measure
  2. how to integrate this function?
  3. Subset Sum Input Size
  4. Combined distribution of Beta distributed variables
  5. Tent Poles

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 11

  1. Simple Type 1 error problem
  2. Proof that Euclid’s fifth postulate cannot be proven.
  3. 2.8651496649...

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 13

  1. Meromorphic invertible functions
  2. Limits / infinite series
  3. Taylor series

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 14

  1. Proof that infinity equals -1
  2. Program for creating mathematical graphs
  3. How do you write integration limits of the solution in TeX?

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 15

  1. Data analysis help
  2. Getting gradient of a contour
  3. Riddle (which I invented):

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 16

  1. Could someone please look at this supposed solution to Collatz conjecture
  2. Partitions of n
  3. Partitions of n with a conditions
  4. Wolfram Alpha

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 17

  1. Map pinpont problem
  2. Arithmetic sum question
  3. Given a family of sets, I can generate a partition of their union set, by looking at their overlapping...
  4. Moment-generating function of the Binomial distribution
  5. some controversial questions

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 18

  1. Order of polynomial / Gaussian Numerical Integration
  2. Hahn fields
  3. How do you call this number?
  4. Mathematicians by country

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 19

  1. Estimating a minimum from discrete points
  2. Continuity of the inverse function
  3. Equilateral planets
  4. Is the integral of 1/x = ln(x)+C or ln|x|+C ?

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 20

  1. Fields medal
  2. A-invariant subspaces
  3. Right-angled triangles in a quadrant

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 21

  1. Books on Randomness
  2. Grand Piano lid prop angles
  3. Which Statistics Test?

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 22

  1. Euclidean Geometry
  2. Kepler's First Law (Antiderivative)
  3. World Cup group stages - how likely is it that drawing of lots would be required?

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 23

  1. hint needed for apparently difficult problem
  2. dy
  3. Solving equations like this

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 24

  1. Constrained solutions of a linear equation
  2. Simple formula
  3. Probability Distributions

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 25

  1. Probability question
  2. Linear or non-linear time series
  3. MUSIC INVERSION AS A MATHEMATICAL PATTERN

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 26

  1. Vector calculus
  2. Contingent events
  3. Limits
  4. power series

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 27

  1. Speed please
  2. Bayesian Inference?
  3. Domain/Range of this function
  4. The probability that a hypothesis is true before any evidence is presented
  5. Surface area of a slice of a sphere
  6. An estimate to the closed form expression of a function
  7. Is this a well-known search algorithm, and, if so, what is it called?

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 28

  1. Bayesian inference with very little information
  2. Exponents and Fractions
  3. Statistical sample
  4. General Cardioid Equation
  5. Limaçon
  6. Are these formulas known in the litterature of statistics?

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 29

  1. Vector similarity
  2. Invalid proofs
  3. Solving for the same exponential variable on both sides of an equation
  4. Fan Curve

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 June 30

  1. Admissible decision rule pdf
  2. Inverse scaling
  3. nth power...
  4. Given 700 possible participants, how many need be surveyed for a useful random sample?
  5. Weighted coins and prior
  6. Homogeneous Continuous-time Markov chains - analytical expressions for the finite time transition probabilities?